Friday, November 13, 2026

1:30 p.m. MST

We lost in the second round of the back draw to Bobbi and Mark. I've played with Ryan one time before in Louisville, and that wasn't a great tournament for us, but I think this week we got a little bit better, which is nice. Playing a couple tournaments with the same person is nice. You get a good feeling of you knowing your partner. So yeah, at least we were a bit better than Louisville, which is good.

Yana still has quarterfinals in mixed today and she's my doubles partner for tomorrow so we're gonna get some games in tomorrow, and hopefully it's a good day tomorrow. I think for this afternoon, I'm just gonna go home now, shower, and get on my escape room game, and probably eat my yogurt!

I still do play two months out of the year. I play a league called Intense Tennis, so I still have to train for it. So when it gets closer to May, I start training again for it, and I'm not playing pickleball for two months, and then I come back, and pretty much my first event back is Chicago. So I finish Intense Tennis on August 1, and Chicago is like the third or the fourth. I go straight to playing pickleball again. So that's going to be fun. I did it this year and ended up winning singles in Chicago, which I was like pretty ecstatic about. But I do love tennis, it's my first love. So to be able to play it still and play pickleball for a living is a blessing.

10:40 a..m. MST

We played our first round against Vivian and Ronan. A tough match, obviously. That's a really tough first round. I feel like it wasn't our day, which happens, and that's that's okay. But we we redeemed ourselves in the back draw. We won the first round. Normally, the back draw takes a while to start, but we actually went on straight away, and I think for me, I quite like that because I don't like to get cold, so I like to go on back-to-back and stay warm. So for me, that was good, and now we're just trying to get matches in and get our points up and gain some more confidence for the next.

8:14 a.m. MST

So last night after my match I went back to my Airbnb and bought myself an ice cream/Greek yoghurt because I'm on diet so I can't eat more than 1800 calories a day, which is very sad. But I wanted something to make me feel a bit better and it definitely did! Then to decompress from the day I normally play my escape room game on my iPad, just to disconnect a little bit. So that was my my afternoon/night and then this morning I woke up and made myself breakfast. I had Greek yogurt with granola and a protein shake. And now I'm at the courts warming up with Ryan Fu soon and I'm excited for mixed doubles today hopefully it's a better day than yesterday.

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Thursday, November 12, 2026

1:59 p.m. MST

So unfortunately I lost in the quarterfinals today. I think it's the first time I've lost in quarters in a while. Coming from last week, I think, like always, I expect myself to do well, and not every week you can play your best. I think today it showed a little bit that I just didn't play well at all. Like, it just didn't come out there, I didn't feel good. I made a lot, of a lot ,of lot of errors. Kudos to Roos. I think she played great. She didn't really fault, didn't miss a drop, didn't miss too many balls. That's good on her for that, but I also put pressure on myself to win more because if you don't win, you don't get paid. So that kind of affects me a lot more. I just I didn't play how I wanted to today, and I'm pretty upset at myself for it.

I still have mixed, so this afternoon I'm gonna rinse all this bad juju off, have a shower, and come back this afternoon, practice for mixed tomorrow because you know I still have two events, mixed and women's, so hopefully I can do well in there. I haven't done too well in doubles lately, but maybe this week's my week. So we'll see.

This afternoon, I'm probably gonna get Chipotle, or I might get an ice cream to help with my feelings. Both, both, judging. I think that's it. Maybe watch some Netflix and just chill.

10:55 a.m. MST

I'm here in Arizona! I've never been here before, and I'm pretty excited to get started. I've just come off a good week, winning singles at the USA Nationals, so I'm hoping to continue my run! Just trying to get more confidence playing and I heard it gets pretty windy here, so I'm a little little worried, but I'm just excited to start playing.

I'm actually staying with Jada Bui this week, we got an Airbnb together. It's really the first time I've actually shared accommodation with anybody in the APP and that's because I normally stay by myself. I like my space and I'm just a loner, I guess! She reached out, and I was like, "Yeah, let's do it." No one's reached out before, so I was like, "okay, f*ck it. Let's just see what happens." I'm very happy because I love Jada. She's a super nice girl, and we get along really well. We have a nice apartment, we're in a community, so we have a pool, a pickleball court, and a gym. We actually have a lot of restaurants and nice places nearby, so it's perfect. We're living our best life!

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